Agustín “Rada” Aristarán He doesn’t work nice, it is. Little interested in formulas used until tiredness, let the talk flow, it can promote “Chanta”the unipersonal of Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat and Juan José Becerra who has just released at the Metropolitan Theater, get excited talking about his daughter or finish off any response with that natural mischief that cannot be rehearsed.
Rada, actor without a network, Magician consecrated, “trchathoro” fierce and memorable in “Matilda”, involuntary teacher of “School of Rock”, right hand of a sinister Joaquín Furriel in “The Kingdom”, frontman of his new musical project Niño Nija, knows that the great trick is that there is no trick. And while fantasizing about a disquerry, the album “Pan” of Flaco Spinetta or reveals that the secret of its collection of shoes is to renew it giving many pairs both to their dad and a group of friends who fit the same and do not buy shoes or clothes for years, Rada prepares to show the cards and throw their magic in this interview.
News: The satire was an almost disused genre until it resurrected strongly a couple of years ago. How was your way of addressing it?
Rada: With a lot of claw, respect and responsibility. Interpreting the pen of these three insane, Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat and Juan José Becerra is an honor and is also the first work they write. Before they had made “the woman next door”, with Griselda Siciliani, but it was a theatrical adaptation of the movie “The man next door.” “Chanta” is his first original material for theater. I am amazing, they started from my comfort zone, I also decided to get out of that safe place and throw myself. The public that follows me is accustomed to seeing happy works, Cohn and Duprat do not write in happy way. (Vibrates his cell phone) Uy, I just entered a Duprat message, he knows we are talking about him! (laughs)
News: “Chanta” has the structure of the poisoned candy, at first they are all laughs and once you are sweetened, a descent to hell begins. How did that tour work?
Rada: The work is that, an poisoned candy. It starts and you say: “What beauty this old man”, but the tanza begins to screw and it is really dark. I am a magician, I like to surprise and I think this story will achieve it.
News: I don’t say it reveals the trick, but give us a track. How was it to get that old man from the galley?
Rada: That old man of the beginning is dead and the story goes back, we take it out with a lot of crying, frustration, work and support of incredible team until we succeed. It is very spicy to make an old man, he had already embodied an old woman, Tronchardo in “Matilda”, but he was super caricaturesca, this is very different. Here there is something incredible, I make old and nene, I am going through all that arch. In a single moment I find my real age and when that happens, the character has no point in common with me, that chabon is disgust at 40. “Chanta” is a giant challenge with a setting is huge, it is not a unipersonal with two lights. I will tell something that does not leave me production, but even a car enters the scene and moves throughout the stage! It is a lot.
News: He appointed that child who plays and you have said that he has many collection toys …
Rada: I have many and also a slide that connects the room with the living room.
News: We know, that slide is mythical. There is no interview with Rada without mention to the slide.
Rada: I thank you, the slide is very important because I wanted to dethrone Alejandro Lerner, he had a “batitubo” in the studio and I was very angry, I said: “I will beat this boludo.” I redoubled the bet, I put a slide in my house, there you have Lerner! (laughs)
News: Let’s go back to the toy store. If I had to invent Radatoy, an action doll of yours, what would it be like?
Rada: Oh, what time! Let’s see, surely I would have a mask that is laughing and when you get it down, it appears serious or vice versa. It would be a normal dress, piola, canchero, but with different interchangeable masks, that the buyer chooses among several available gestures. I like that concept because I think we all use masks in life. The superpower of this action figure would be to have different faces.
News: One of the issues that Cohn and Duprat have addressed in series such as “Fine Arts” for example, is that of cancellation. How do you hit someone like you who have been canceled in Middle Earth?
Rada: (He laughs) exactly, that’s. Let’s say that Tolkien forbade me to use the name of that wizard of “The Lord of the Rings” with which I was ever met. He sent me a real document letter and I wasn’t even Gandalf! (laughs) Seriously speaking, that is half a fun world is tremendous, I think that if one day it happens to me it would be terrible. I had an experience recently with the theme of Bahía Blanca’s tragedy. I am from Bay, I made a comment in a note and I was super clear, I said: “Para, let’s not talk about those who did or did nothing but what people are happening now that they have poop on the neck.” It was the only thing I said, that cuts went viral and reactions began with an uncontrolled aggression level. That if this was or that, to say what sidewalk was, I did not talk about politics, just people. Luckily it lasted a little while, a few hours, the bard was not so big, but they put me in a place that scared me.
News: Does one realize that networks have a fairly fearsome face?
Rada: Yes, I am in total disagreement with cancellation, but it is also what social networks brought, we all have the same power to exalt or destroy, the issue is very democratic. Is it good? Yes. Is it bad? Also. Before you needed a television producer that touched you with the wand to work and be someone in the media, today we can do it. In fact, I did it from my home with my networks, but there is also the other not so bright side. Cancellation is shit, the level of violence that is handled is extreme, to me that I told you came to threaten my death and also my daughter. Some sent me: “You and your people stayed with the twine of donations.” It was crazy, I ended up distressed, I don’t understand how those who receive hate constantly do.
News: Respect for China Suárez, right?
Rada: I was going to tell you exactly the same. What does that woman have to endure so much? You have to be armored because it is tremendous. Although it is also true that one is distressed and nothing happens. You tell these people that they are talking on Twitter of them and they are already accustomed, they don’t care. Are you trend? Wait and happen to you, the trends now last 30 seconds, everything is very ephemeral. Hashtag Rada Son of Mier … and already disappeared (he laughs). We are crazy.
News: In a note he gave at his house I saw a sign that says: “I play later.” Does your attitude to life reflect in some way?
Rada: That is a poster of El Tano Verón, a plastic artist, he wrote it and had never stopped to think about it but it is like that, he reflects what I am. It’s like my motto, I first play, then I analyze. Because I understand that the game is the purest state of creativity, of the dispossession of all rules. With rules it cannot be created, they only serve a board game, the primary game of a creature is something else, as a boy you can believe that they are in a forest stopped above the house of your house. Today at 41 I am not with the autos imagining a Formula 1 career, but I do play when composing a character, of writing, of assembling a song, it is the only way I can create, there are no limits.
News: We see him going a lot to the theater with Bianca, his daughter. In addition, her partner Fernanda Metilli, she and you already worked together in Matilda. Is the theater with children always a plan?
Rada: I love that they have noticed that, it is true that with Bianca we go to the theater, we also travel together and share a lot. I am looking forward to that it continues to happen because my daughter is a big kid, she is already 19, at some point she will say: “old, ready.” Right now she is doing a casting and I am more nervous than her, praying to do very well, study dramatic art in one and is put to teeth in the world of acting. I am happy that this is, the same, surely I would have reacted in the same way if I had told me that I loved the laws and wanted to be a lawyer. Yesterday he sent me an audio and made me cry a little in the car, he told me the happiness that gave him university. I And now you’re sure you’re going to ask me why I’m not going with Fer so much to the theater …
News: No, because I calculate that I have the answer, it is because it is lifting it with a shovel every night in Campanella’s work
Rada: (Laughs) Yes, he is lifting it with a shovel! The truth is that Fer is going barbaric and makes me very happy that it is so. I am very proud of my partner, it is a total beast.
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